TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTERS
Our award-winning program changes the lives of young women in North Texas.
Our Transitional Living Center (TLC) program provides a home and community for single women ages 18-24.
Our first TLC opened in 1992, and we opened the second center in late 2015.
Each year, we serve about 40 young women at two apartment-style TLCs located in Old East Dallas. They offer award-winning programming, including a life skills curriculum and intensive case management from staff who live on site.
Every young woman gets her own bedroom and shares the kitchen, bathroom and common living area with two roommates.
Our residents come from many backgrounds.
80%
HAVE EXPERIENCED
INFORMAL KINSHIP CARE
20%
WERE PREVIOUSLY IN
FOSTER CARE
90%
HAVE EXPERIENCED
HOMELESSNESS
10%
COME FROM
UNSTABLE HOMES
Our Transitional Living Center program is for women who are:
Between the ages of 18 to 24
Not pregnant/not parenting
Willing and able to enroll in educational or vocational classes
Willing and able to maintain a job
Participants receive:
Their own furnished bedroom
A furnished apartment with living room, kitchen, and bathroom shared with up to two roommates
Help Person centered case management including guidance for enrolling in class and/or searching for jobs
Young women in our TLC program participate in:
Intensive case management with OFP staff who live on site
Weekly life-skill lessons with other young women in the TLC
Guidance on rent payments and saving money for their future
TLC Program Achievements (2019)
Success looks different for each young woman. Our Friends Place helps young women build their personal future.
100%
INCREASED JOB SKILLS
94%
ATTENDED EDUCATIONAL OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
100%
DID NOT BECOME PREGNANT
86%
INCREASED SAVINGS
100%
EMPLOYED AT LEAST
PART-TIME
83%
SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED OR STAYED IN THE PROGRAM
67%
DECREASED PERSONAL DEBT
33%
INCREASED HOURLY WAGE
100%
MAINTAINED EMPLOYMENT (SOME IN FIRST-EVER JOB)
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